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Significados de waspish em inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "prickly"
Examples for "prickly"
1
However, given the prickly undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
2
Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been prickly.
3
For a similar reason, the actual prickly pears themselves are attractively coloured.
4
Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her prickly.
5
My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel prickly sensations.
1
The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
2
His long arms almost strangled me; his bristly mustache scratched my cheek.
3
They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
4
His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
5
Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his bristly hair.
1
To scorn and revile wealth is the mere resource of splenetic poverty.
2
That he was occasionally splenetic in his disposition is very manifest.
3
He walked about and ejaculated splenetic phrases on the subject of his ill-luck.
4
Sharp and Rogers both speak of him as an unpleasant, affected, splenetic person.
5
For those are my sentiments in that splenetic humour, which governs me at present.
Uso de waspish em inglês
1
I should point out that Liew is a waspish but well-liked journalist.
2
She bit down a waspish response to the intrusion and looked up.
3
If so, will have the same elegantly waspish concern for standards?
4
Even she was waspish, fed up with the pettiness they were all displaying.
5
Beyond the window, Didi could hear the high waspish whine of the freezing wind.
6
The insect is as large as a hornet, and has a most waspish appearance.
7
That voice, high-pitched and waspish, struck him with fresh dread.
8
The tone was waspish, but no less threatening for that.
9
With a waspish sniff Toys said, "So, tell me about the happy couple."
10
His humour was often waspish and he enjoyed puns.
11
Thus she carried within herself the magic that drew from waspish circumstance its sharpest sting.
12
A shudder swept her at the thought of being prey to her waspish aunt again.
13
Mr. Jones raised his waspish eyebrows, at the sound.
14
Even the entertaining waspish humour which once studded his interviews and pronouncements has dried up.
15
Once only-thislast time-stung, goaded into it by the lash of Mrs. Walraven's waspish tongue.
16
When she chose, his sister's tongue could be waspish.
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